Joseph Holt Ingraham (writer)

Joseph Holt Ingraham (January 26, 1809 – December 18, 1860) was an American author.

Under the pen-name F. Clinton Barrington he wrote stories for popular publications such as Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion.

[2] He met Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in 1846 and told him that he "has written eighty novels, and of these twenty during the last year.

"[3] Ingraham died at the age of 51, in Holly Springs, Mississippi, from an accidental self-inflicted gunshot wound in the vestibule of his church.

The first of these was supposed to illustrate the beginning of Hebraic power, the second its culmination and the last its decadence.